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Lost Loss in American Elegiac Poetry: Tracing Inaccessible Grief
from Stevens to Post-9/11 examines contemporary literary
expressions of losses that are "lost" on us, inquiring what it
means to "lose" loss and what happens when dispossessory
experiences go unacknowledged or become inaccessible. Toshiaki
Komura analyzes a range of elegiac poetry that does not neatly
align with conventional assumptions about the genre, including
Wallace Stevens's "The Owl in the Sarcophagus," Sylvia Plath's last
poems, Elizabeth Bishop's Geography III, Sharon Olds's The Dead and
the Living, Louise Gluck's Averno, and poems written after 9/11.
What these poems reveal at the intersection of personal and
communal mourning are the mechanism of cognitive myth-making
involved in denied grief and its social and ethical implications.
Engaging with an assortment of philosophical, psychoanalytic, and
psychological theories, Lost Loss in American Elegiac Poetry
elucidates how poetry gives shape to the vague despondency of
unrecognized loss and what kind of phantomic effects these
equivocal grieving experiences may create.
Lost Loss in American Elegiac Poetry: Tracing Inaccessible Grief
from Stevens to Post-9/11 examines unconventional elegies of losses
that are "lost" on us, discussing what it means to "lose" loss and
what happens when dispossessory experiences go unacknowledged or
become inaccessible. Toshiaki Komura analyzes a range of "oddball"
elegiac poetry that does not neatly align with conventional
assumptions about the genre, including Wallace Stevens' "The Owl in
the Sarcophagus," Sylvia Plath's last poems, Elizabeth Bishop's
"Geography III," Sharon Olds' "The Dead and the Living," Louise
Gluck's "Averno," and poems written after 9/11. Komura studies the
intersection of the personal and the communal, beginning with the
mechanism of cognitive myth-making involved in denied grief and
ending with its social and ethical implications. Engaging with a
range of philosophical and psychological theories, Komura
elucidates how poetry gives shape to the vague despondency of
unrecognized loss and what kind of phantomic effects these
equivocal grieving experiences may create.
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